Toshiba 37XV505DB TV reviews

Score 8.7/10 Read 90
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This TV is a good all rounder.

£700 at 1 retailer out of 399 retailers checked

Toshiba 37XV505DB with 37" Full HD 1080p LCD screen, 3 HDMI ports and Freeview. See full product description

Image quality	8.6
Sound quality	7.8
Design	9.1
Value for money	9.0
Overall rating	8.7

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TOMO, Bromley

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: Seems to have it all
Bad points:: NA

Image quality	9.0
Sound quality	9.0
Design	9.0
Value for money	9.0
Overall rating	9.0

Was this review helpful? 3 of 3 people found this review helpful

Confirmed purchase: 28 Aug 2008

Norman, Worcester Park Retired male

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: Nice design - Easy to set up
Bad points:: Setup menus to small & difficult to read - Poor info on connections of DVD recorders

Image quality	8.0
Sound quality	7.0
Design	8.0
Value for money	9.0
Overall rating	9.0

Was this review helpful? 4 of 4 people found this review helpful

Confirmed purchase: 19 Aug 2008

Derek, Hexham

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: Excellent all-round performance for the price
Bad points:: A little slow to respond to remote control commands. User manual could be better, especially with regard to use of the receiver with analogue transmissions.

Image quality	9.0
Sound quality	8.0
Design	8.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	9.0

Was this review helpful? 3 of 3 people found this review helpful

Confirmed purchase: 12 Sep 2008

Brian, Brentwood

Score 7.0/10

Good points:: The price was good for the size of the tv and the fact it was full HD.
Bad points:: The picture on normal digital tv was not as good as I would have expected. I dont think I needed to have a
full HD TV for what I needed it for. Sometimes the skin tones especially on the BBC channels seemed over
exposed and un natural. I think the TV has settled a bit since I bought it and I have dabbled with the
settings and I have improved it but should I have needed to?

Image quality	7.0
Sound quality	4.0
Design	8.0
Value for money	8.0
Overall rating	7.0

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Confirmed purchase: 07 Sep 2008

Confirmed purchaser

Score 8.0/10

Good points:: Reasonably compact for size of screen
Bad points:: case is too dark

Image quality	8.0
Sound quality	7.0
Design	8.0
Value for money	8.0
Overall rating	8.0

Was this review helpful? 1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Confirmed purchase: 07 Sep 2008

Darral, Arbroath Happy customer

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: Excellent picture quality
Bad points:: tends to make a rattling sound if the volume is up too high

Image quality	10.0
Sound quality	8.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	9.0

Was this review helpful? 4 of 4 people found this review helpful

Confirmed purchase: 03 Sep 2008

Dave, Ravenshead. Nottinghamshire Mr normal

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: Easy to set up and tune in.
Plenty of input points for various external appliances.
Thinking of getting a larger monitor for your desktop/laptop no need with this great piece of kit use the PC inputs problem solved and money saved.
Choices of the screen display. Eight in all.
Bad points:: I have only given 9 out of 10, not ten out of ten,because there must be a bad point somewhere and I have not found it yet."It might not exsist"

Image quality	9.0
Sound quality	9.0
Design	9.0
Value for money	9.0
Overall rating	9.0

Was this review helpful? 6 of 7 people found this review helpful

Confirmed purchase: 01 Sep 2008

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Product Features

Screen size (Inches)	37
Screen size is measured diagonally from corner to corner.
Type of screen	LCD
Most small flatscreen TVs have LCD screens. Some larger TVs have plasma screens. Some very new TVs have LED screens. Traditional TVs are called Standard or CRT.
3D	No

HD TV	Full HD 1080p
‘HD Ready’ is a Europe-wide standard designed to made HD technology less confusing. HD Ready TVs must have • Minimum resolution of 720 horizontal lines (in widescreen format) • Ability to display 720p and 1080i formats • An HDMI or Digital Video Interface (DVI interface) Full HD is a higher standard. Full HD TVs have screen resolutions of 1080p and can output at least 24 frames per second. Full HD is becoming common, but you won’t see Full HD on normal TV channels for a long time, so it remains optional for many people.
Built-in disc player	No Disc Player
Some products come with built-in DVD players or Blu Ray players.
Freeview or Freesat tuner	Freeview
Freeview is free digital terrestrial TV. FreeSat is a free digital satellite TV service, which gives you HD programming from people like the BBC without having to pay for a subscription to a service like Sky. You need a dish to receive Freesat but not Freeview. For more information see the Freeview site or the Freesat site. FreeSat is a free digital satellite TV service. The main benefit is that you can get HD programming from people like the BBC without having to pay for a subscription to a service like Sky. You’ll need a dish to recieve the signals though.
Number of HDMI ports	3
Like a scart interface but capable of carrying HD signals from or to other devices. You’ll need these to link your Playstation 3 or your Blu-ray player to your HD-ready TV.
Number of scart ports	2
Scart sockets are places where you can connect other devices to your TV. If you already have a DVD player, a VCR and a Playstation you might want to make sure your new TV has enough Scart interfaces so you don’t have to keep crawling round the back of the TV.
Connections	HDMI

Smart TV	No
TVs with internet capability allow you access to a range of online services.
Frequency (Hz)	50
A TV’s frequency is how often the picture is updated per second, and is measured in Hertz (Hz). A higher frequency, such as 100 Hz, means that a TV is more likely to show fast-moving images with high detail.
Screen aspect ratio	16:9
This is a ratio of the horizontal to the vertical size of the screen. 16:9 is standard widescreen format for TVs, replacing the older 4:3 format.
Contrast Ratio (X:1)	18000
This figure is designed to tell you how much difference there is between dark and light colours on the TV. It is quoted as a ratio, between the brightest white and the darkest black. 500:1 means the brightest white is 500 times more bright than the darkest black. Plasma screens have historically boasted better contrast ratios than LCD screens.
Reflection angle	178
Also known as the viewing angle, it’s a measure of how good the picture looks when you are not face on to the screen. Higher is better.
Horizontal resolution (Pixels)	192

Vertical resolution (Pixels)	1080

Brightness (Candela per square metre)	500
Brighter TVs, such as LCDs, tend to provide a better experience in lighter rooms, whereas TVs with a lower brightness, such as many plasma TVs, are often better suited to darker rooms.
Electronic Program Guide (EPG)	Yes
TVs with this feature have an on-screen guide to all the programmes that are currently showing or coming up, so you can find your way around all the extra digital channels easily.
Headphone Socket	Yes
Weight (kg)	16.1

Release date	2008-03-26
The date the product was originally made available for purchase.

Also known as: Toshiba Regza 37XV505D, Toshiba-37XV505, Toshiba 37XV505D, Toshiba Regza 37XV505DB

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Manufacturer's Description

The innovation keeps coming with our new Regza XV Series Full HD Ready LCD television, blending superb picture and audio quality, and delivering it in our slimmest, most stylish package to date.